'There's no denying the bizarre fertility of the author's imagination: his brilliant dialogue, his cruel humour'Irish Times'Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposedof...

'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to...

Complicity n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act.A few spliffs, a spot of mild S&M, phone through the copy of tomorrow's front page, catch up with the latest from your mystery source - could be big, could be very...

'Baroque, digressive, kinetic, teeming with big ideas and grand theories, it's a novel to get lost in . . . Gripping'The TimesImagine a world that is one of infinite parallel worlds, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of...

A new edition of the classic novel from the late, great Iain Banks, published to mark its 25th anniversary. It was adapted into a successful BBC TV series in 1996. 'An utterly enchanting piece of fiction...' "Independent On Sunday" von...

The international sensation Iain M. Banks offers readers a deeply imaginative, wittily satirical tale, proving once again that he is "a talent to be reckoned with" ("Locus"). In "Excession", the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks...

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after...

A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Banks' original, dark and formally daring novel, in which a substance-abusing journalist comes by knowledge potentially of police interest. von Banks, Iain

"The Steep Approach to Garbadale" von Iain Banks ist eine fesselnde Geschichte über Familie, Liebe und Selbstfindung. Der Roman folgt dem Protagonisten Alban McGill, der sich mit den Geistern seiner Vergangenheit auseinandersetzt,...